Word: manner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this unorthodox manner, Cubans last week got the bad news. At 5,000,000 tons, this year's sugar-cane harvest, on which Cuba depends almost exclusively for income, will be a full 1,000,000 tons under last year's crop and 1,500,000 tons less than Castro's earlier forecasts. Right now, Cuba can afford a small crop even less than usual. Some 60% of the harvest is pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled...
Serpentine Suavity. Capote, who despite his effeminate manner can be a tough scrapper, struck back immediately. "I don't believe in artists replying to criticism," he wrote to the Observer, "and I have never done so myself, for I think it shows lack of pride and really serves small purpose. But this bullyboy chicanery concocted by Tynan is one over the odds." Capote emphatically denied that he could have done anything more to save his "pitiful friends." A competent psychiatrist had offered his testimony, and the Kansas court was not likely to be impressed with any more medical...
Durer was coping with a transition between the German Middle Ages and a Renaissance in the North. Although he grew more classical and refined in his manner of expression, he remained, throughout his career, Gothic in spirit...
...Lawrence once described himself as "a kind of human bomb." The bomb exploded in all directions. Lawrence left 14 brooding, contentious novels, dozens of excited essays, scores of loose, somewhat lumpy poems, and hundreds of febrile, fretful letters. He painted, occasionally, as he wrote, in an earnest, impetuous manner. All of these disjecta membra have been examined with fascination and respect by a large number of critics, biographers and memoirists, but they have all but ignored the skeleton in Lawrence's literary closet: he was also a playwright...
...Supreme Court upheld the conviction, but Justice William Brennan Jr.'s majority opinion is puzzling indeed. Brennan explained that the Court could use a publisher's manner of advertising to determine whether the material itself is obscene. A publication with some kind of "redeeming social value" may escape the obscenity charge. But Brennan seemed to be saying that titillating publicity establishes the obscenity of a book's content. When the material's status is uncertain by other tests, the advertising criterion may tip the scale in favor of labelling the publication obscene...